Hind al-Husseini
هند الحسيني
Educator and founder of Dar al-Tifl al-Arabi
The Jerusalem educator who opened her home to children displaced from Deir Yasin in 1948 and built that act of care into Dar al-Tifl al-Arabi.
Hind al-Husseini was born in Jerusalem on 25 April 1916. She trained and worked as a teacher, then turned toward organized social work, helping establish the Social Cooperation Society for Women in Jerusalem in 1948.
In April that year, al-Husseini encountered children in Jerusalem who had fled Deir Yasin after the massacre there. PalQuest records that she first took them to her apartment and then to her family home. From that immediate act she established Dar al-Tifl al-Arabi — the Home of the Arab Child — which grew to include nursery, school, literacy, secretarial, and vocational programs.
Her work joined care to culture. She established a museum of Palestinian popular culture at Dar al-Tifl in 1960, and in 1967 converted the institution into a clinic for the wounded. She later founded a cultural and research center in the former home of Isaaf al-Nashashibi and established the Hind al-Husseini College for Women.
Al-Quds University records the college as one of its oldest faculties in Jerusalem. Dates differ slightly across the institutional record: PalQuest dates the college’s foundation to 1982, while a 2021 Al-Quds University account says 1981. The archive preserves that one-year discrepancy rather than choosing between them.
Selected contributions
- Founder, Dar al-Tifl al-Arabi
- Founder of a Palestinian popular-culture museum at Dar al-Tifl (1960)
- Founder, Hind al-Husseini College for Women (institutional sources give 1981 or 1982)
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- Jerusalemالقدس
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: birthplace: "Jerusalem, Palestine" → Jerusalem (Jerusalem Governorate)
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- Deir Yassinدير ياسين
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: In April that year, al-Husseini encountered children in Jerusalem who had fled Deir Yasin after the massacre there.
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- Khalil al-Sakakiniخليل السكاكيني
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: Shared tags: "education", "Jerusalem".
- Armenian Ceramics of Jerusalem
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "Jerusalem".
- Defense for Children International — Palestine (DCIP)
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "children".
- Refaat Alareerرفعت العرير
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "education".
- The Abu Khdeir familyأبو خضير
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "Jerusalem".
- The Al-Alami familyالعلمي
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@misc{falasteen-hind-al-husseini, title = {Hind al-Husseini}, howpublished = {\url{https://falasteen.ai/figures/hind-al-husseini}}, organization = {FALASTEEN.AI — A Living Archive for Palestine}, year = {2026}, note = {Accessed 2026-08-22} }